Where Bigfoot Walks

The book Where Bigfoot Walks, Crossing the Dark Divide, was written by Robert Michael Pyle. The book is full of chapters of Pyle's destinations and experiences. The Dark Divide is the name where Bigfoot sightings are recorded often. While he trekked through the Dark Divide, Pyle found a giant fossil footprint. This Dark Divide is the region stretching across the mountains and plateaus of Washington and northern California. Pyle also talks with Northwest Coast Indians, and he asked them questions. These Indians tell him about their encounters with the creature. One Indian tells him, "I went on foot in there for fifteen miles, spent days and days, and saw no sign of that Bigfoot... I think its a hoax." This Indians is discussing when he went through the Dark Divide. Robert even goes to a conference in British Columbia in 1994. At this conference all he learned was that many of these guys were not interested in finding Bigfoot but they actually wanted to be Bigfoot. Ultimately Pyle discovers a few things about Bigfoot - and a lot about the human need for something to believe in and the need for wilderness in our lives.


As I started this research project I was very interested in looking at what researchers say about Bigfoot and what they have found. I was very open-minded about it. In this book though, even a researcher is being let down by his findings. when Pyle attended the conference he was sad to come by men who just are itching to find something out there. Many hunters just wanting to kill something. Kill something no one has ever seen before. Which makes this source good for my research particularly because I realized how unauthentic every sighting can be. how made up the sightings can be.



This book was a little hard to read and get into. I skipped around in the different chapters to make it interesting to read. The book itself was pretty boring and not what i would pick to read. But for the benefit of my research it helped me. And I feel this book helped me make my decision on how I feel about Bigfoot. And that made this book great to read. Pyle never found what he wanted to. Yes, the fossil of the foot was amazing but besides that he was disappointed. and so am I with my findings.

Pyle, Robert Michael. Where Bigfoot Walks Crossing the Dark Divide. New York. Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Print.